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A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga800
“imaginations,” like our created characters—that would be a most unhappy
belief. The mental creations held by You and I, and other finite minds, are
but finite creations of finite minds, while we, ourselves, are the finite creations
of an infinite mind. While our, and Dickens’, and Balzac’s, and Shakespeare’s
creations live and move and have their being, they have no other “I” than
our Finite Minds, while we, the characters in the Divine Drama, Story, or
Epic, have for our “I”—our Real Self—the Absolute Reality. They have
merely a background of our finite personalities, and minds, before which
they may desport themselves, until, alas! the very background fades away
to dust, and both background and shadows disappear. But, we have behind
our personalities the Eternal Background of Reality, which changeth not,
neither doth it Disappear. Shadows on a screen though our Personalities
may be, yet the Screen is Real and Eternal. Take away the finite screen and
the shadows disappear—but our Screen remains forever.
We are Mental Images in the Infinite Mind—the Infinite Mind holds us
safe—we cannot be lost—we cannot be hurt—we can never disappear,
unless we be absorbed in the Infinite Mind itself, and then we still are!
The Infinite Mind never forgets—it never can overlook us—it is aware of our
presence, and being, always. We are safe—we are secure—we are! Just as
we could not be created from Nothing—so we cannot be converted into
Nothing. We are in the All—and there is no outside.
At the dawn of the Brahmic Day, The Absolute begins the creation of a
new Universe, or the recreation of one, just as you may care to state it. The
highest Yogi Teachings inform us that the information relating to this event
(which is, of course, beyond the personal knowledge of man as we know
him) has been passed down to the race from teachers, who have received it
from still higher teachers, and so on, and on and on, higher and higher, until
it is believed to have originated with some of those wonderfully developed
souls which have visited the earth from higher planes of Being, of which
there are many. In these lessons we are making no claims of this sort, but pass
on the teachings to you, believing that their truth will appeal to those who